January 09, 2011

Nick Folk's Foot Helps Jets Defeat Colts: Last season's longest-playing teams were this season's first playoff exits. The Indianapolis Colts lost a defensive 17-16 battle to the New York Jets at home Saturday after Nick Folk kicked a game-winning 32-yard field goal as time expired. Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri had kicked a go-ahead 50-yarder just 53 seconds earlier.

Jim Caldwell deserves some credit too. If he doesn't call that last timeout, Sanchez has to hurriedly spike the ball and the Jets don't get time to bring him to the sideline and talk about that final pass play that turns a 50-yarder into a 32-yarder.

Folk isn't Vinatieri. I don't like his chances to make a kick that long in a do-or-die situation.

(Anyone else laugh when Collinsworth said that Sanchez "has been high all day"?)